metadata/glsa/glsa-201405-17.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201405-17">
  <title>Munin: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Munin which may
    lead to symlink attacks, file creation, or bypass of security restrictions.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">munin</product>
  <announced>May 18, 2014</announced>
  <revised>May 18, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>412881</bug>
  <bug>445250</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/munin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.8-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.8-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Munin is an open source server monitoring tool.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Munin. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary
      files with the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
    
    <p>A remote attacker could create files or load new Munin configuration
      files.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Munin users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/munin-2.0.8-r2"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2103">CVE-2012-2103</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3512">CVE-2012-3512</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3513">CVE-2012-3513</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:14:15 +0000">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 18 May 2014 11:35:16 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>